MSI Radeon R9 290X Lightning 4 GB

[Relayer]

1190mhz, he has added voltage, see the bottom of page 27.

Wasn't there a similar chart for the PCS+? I thought I remembered seeing it, but I don't now. I seem to recall exclaiming how well it scaled with voltage.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Not for voltage adjustment no.....
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/R9_290X_PCS_Plus/26.html

 

[eidairaman1]

Well that solves my Question, Ill be getting a Sapphire VaporX 290

Hey tatty look at both our Thanks Received Count

whats common about both? Yes you guessed it, same digits

 

[LeonVolcove]

Well take what I say with a grain of salt ok.

#1 the card in person looks great
#2 the cards cooler works fine at idle
#3 place a slight OC to it and it's mid 90's man

I had one, I sold it to a local on the 3rd day... It wasn't my cup of tea

Why, is because terrible performance or cooler? or you just dont like the "design"?

 

[radrok]

This thing yells for a custom waterblock

 

[fullinfusion]

Why, is because terrible performance or cooler? or you just dont like the "design"?

Don't get me wrong it was a good card but it don't cool under mild over clocks. Sure its quiet but my main concerns were how bad it sagged under its own weight. If it had a back plate that fix its issue but the cooler didn't do all that great.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

I will need to re-read the article to see how you tested the cooler since mine is VERY cool and stays that way under hours of 100% load. It may be due to me having the card on my test bench in open air maybe?

 

[etayorius]

Wizz, could you add some MANTLE benchmarks in next reviews? back in the day you made a big deal out of AMD not having PhysX and even took several points out to all Radeon Cards... just saying, i`m no AMD Fanboy... i don`t even own a Radeon but it would be fair to add MANTLE benchmarks because you know... more performance is what GPU`s are all about and MANTLE is a feature of all Modern Radeon Cards.

We got 2 Titles and 1 demo (Star Swarm)which support MANTLE, with a List of about 10+ extra Games through 2014-2015.

 

[EarthDog]

I will need to re-read the article to see how you tested the cooler since mine is VERY cool and stays that way under hours of 100% load. It may be due to me having the card on my test bench in open air maybe?

It performed like a champ on an open air test bench, and pretty well in the PC too. I never had any issues with the cooler outside of the fans not working properly because of the "amd drivers". MSI fan control has now been updated, as well as the bios so I believe that is a non issue now.

 

[acupalypse]

Has anyone noticed something odd the VRM2 temp seen in GPU-Z? It's not in AB and shows same temperature even if everything else around it is warm or cold. Seems like reboot, driver update and some issues may influence it and cause it to show slightly higher temp numbers. Not sure where that reading is coming from.

 

[Lx20]

Hello, I have a r9 290x lightning, new to oc and I tried oc at 1125-1175 because alot of people have been able to get these results stable but yet when I do it, it will play fine until there is alot goin on then fps drop to 3-7 and then my comp will restart, but before that I would check temps and they never go above 70c, so I'm kinda stumped as to why it happens. My specs are p8z68 v pro gen 3 pcie3.0
I7 2600k stock, corsair vengeance 16gb ram, corsair hx750 running the 6-8pin connectors gpu came with along with extra 6pin, 4 case fans in haf932 atx case, windows 7 64bit, 1tb ssd 840evo, 1tb wd hdd 7200rpm, Blu ray cd rom drive. Any help would be appreciated, thank you